13 hours ago by michael

Sizing, Danish Style Folks in telecommunications and operations research have used Erlang models for almost a century. A. K. Erlang, a Danish telephone engineer, developed these models to help plan the capacity of the phone network and predict the grade of service that could be guaranteed, given som ...

Wide Awake Developers - michaelnygard.com/blog · 224 references

1 day ago by user1

It is well known that Hoover vacuum cleaners were a very popular brand in the US market because William Hoover gave his vacuum cleaners to consumers for trial period of ten days. And after that, Hoover became a popular household brand: together with the appliance that is called a vacuum cleaner and ...

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2 days ago by user1

It is well known that Hoover vacuum cleaners were a very popular brand in the US market because William Hoover gave his vacuum cleaners to consumers for trial period of ten days. Since then, Hoover became a household name: along with the latest home appliance we now call a vacuum cleaner, and the po ...

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7 days ago by p6

This: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorting-1pb-with-mapreduce.html read more

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22 days ago by admin

Last Monday I attended a fascinating Java developer meeting in San Francisco. Orion Letizi, co-founder of Terracotta, gave a demonstration of a way to deliver enterprise-grade scalability and availability using an open-source network-attached memory solution for Java. I have actually never worked wi ...

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23 days ago by Travis Smith

Jack Germain of the E-Commerce Times News Network posted an interesting question for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant companies, “ Why Do Bad Things Happen to PCI-Compliant Companies?” Germain points out two major flaws with PCI compliance: subjectivity and infrequency of testing. The latest st ...

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25 days ago by dorion

At the tail end of October, I had a chance to speak with Sumi Das over at ZDNet to talk about Technorati as part of their CIO Sessions. We spoke for longer than the interview play time, but they did a great job editing it to keep it relevant to the series. It was pretty cool to be able to look back ...

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25 days ago by eclectic

What Ray Ozzie didn't tell you about Microsoft Azure • The Register Ted Dziuba's take on the release of Microsoft Azure into the Cloud Computing arena; include a light hearted and honest comparison of Microsoft Azure versus Google App Engine versus Amazon EC2. (tags: scalability programming news mic ...

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25 days ago by admin

Presented by John Coggeshall, author of PHP 5 Unleashed The “fastest” approach isn’t always the most scalable. John covers how to scale everything from your data, your code, to your team. He quotes Theo Schlossnagle saying “Scalability marginally impacts procedure, procedure grossly impacts scalabil ...

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26 days ago by digitalindustrialpark

If you are starting an online business and you started running the operations numbers, you have probably noticed that they get pretty big pretty fast. It gets expensive to get things from Point A to Point B. E-Commerce Fulfillment Providers are designed to take the friction out of order fulfillment. ...

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